Rate this decade

[RedRalph]

The good things and the bad. How does it measure up to other ones? Highlights? Lowlights? Not personal stuff, newsworthy stuff

And please, while its grand to discuss other's choices, dont flame eachother. OK, mine:

Good:

The Strokes
Hugo Chavez, rise of the left in Latin America
The Troubles definitively finished
Russia back on its feet
The internet
Brilliant TV such as The Office, I'm Alan Patridge, 6 Feet Under, Arrested Development etc
People taking environmentalism seriously


Bad:

Terrorism
Bush, Blair, etc
Sudan, DR Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc
Paris Hilton
'Latin' influenced pop music in the early part of this decade
USSR still collapsed, shows few if any signs of reforming

 

[Kraznaya]

Good to know Paris Hilton was about as bad as the conflicts in Sudan, the Congo, Iraq, and Afghanistan put together.

 

[Winner]

Bad:

Terrorism
Bush, Blair, etc
Sudan, DR Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc
Paris Hilton
'Latin' influenced pop music in the early part of this decade
USSR still collapsed, shows few if any signs of reforming

Are you kidding?

 

[Kraznaya]

Are you kidding?

From his political viewpoint I doubt he is kidding, and your mocking tone does little to address faults you may find with it.

 

[Winner]

From his political viewpoint I doubt he is kidding, and your mocking tone does little to address faults you may find with it.

Oh, sorry. I believed it is obviously wrong to want to re-create one of the worst totalitarian countries in history. But maybe it's just my stupid post-communist attitude, I am sure Ralph believes that the USSR was a working man's paradise...

 

[Kraznaya]

Oh, sorry. I believed it is obviously wrong to want to re-create one of the worst totalitarian countries in history. But maybe it's just my stupid post-communist attitude, I am sure Ralph believes that the USSR was a working man's paradise...

Your overly defensive attitude of your now expressed viewpoint is irrelevant of the fact that your question served no purpose to the discussion without further explication.

 

[Winner]

Your overly defensive attitude of your now expressed viewpoint is irrelevant of the fact that your question served no purpose to the discussion without further explication.

*holds his breath*

Never mind.

 

[Godwynn]

Better than the 70's. Worse than the 80's and 90's.

 

[RedRalph]

Better than the 70's. Worse than the 80's and 90's.

Care to expand?

 

[tycoonist]

5/10 .

 

[QuoVadisNation]

I wouldn't know if Hugo Chavez qualifies as part of the good. Anyone's who read Latin American history is aware rises in the left happened already quite a number of times, and it'll probably backfire again in one of the most horrible manners possible just like their rises in conversativism. It'll likely just be a footnote like the rest. The only difference now is that Venezuela might get a few more handouts from China than Cuba got from Russia.

Good:
New technology
Secularism in a couple of countries
Gay rights inrows (worldwide)
International treatises (nafta, EU, Asian, and that Latin American one, but not the United African States because they've accomplished very little this decade (heck, they can't even decide whether democracy is right for them) )

Bad:
Economy troubles
Increased nationalism, or pan-nationalism
New found religiousness in other countries
Race tensions (Europe)

 

[Jazzmail]

It's a toss up between the 90s and the current decade.

The rest only gets worse the further back you go.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Chavez will leave Venezuela soon, the people don't want him, but he is part of this decade so meh.

Speaking of the decade in general, it was a just below meh decade (around 4 out of 10), but technological advances this decade was great as well as environmental awareness among the populous, which is good.

Final score, 6/10.

 

[RedRalph]

Chavez will leave Venezuela soon, the people don't want him, but he is part of this decade so meh.

Speaking of the decade in general, it was a just below meh decade (around 4 out of 10), but technological advances this decade was great as well as environmental awareness among the populous, which is good.

Final score, 6/10.

are you basing this on the fact that he almost always wins free and fair elections?

 

[Perfection]

Bad:

The Strokes
Hugo Chavez, rise of the left in Latin America
The Troubles definitively finished
Russia back on its feet
Boring TV such as The Office, I'm Alan Patridge, 6 Feet Under
People taking environmentalism too seriously


Good:

Paris Hilton
'Latin' influenced pop music in the early part of this decade
USSR still collapsed, shows few if any signs of reforming

 

[TheLastOne36]

well besides the poor, who Chavez is giving oil money.

The rest of the country doesn't want him, take evidence of merida, the city i'll be living in, which has frequent protesters against Chavez by the university students.

 

[RedRalph]

well besides the poor, who Chavez is giving oil money.

The rest of the country doesn't want him, take evidence of merida, the city i'll be living in, which has frequent protesters against Chavez by the university students.

'well, the poor, like him, but they don't count'... and people wonder why he's popular.

the majority want him. It dosent make a damn bit of difference if they are poor.

 

[RedRalph]

Bad:

The Strokes
Hugo Chavez, rise of the left in Latin America
The Troubles definitively finished
Russia back on its feet
Boring TV such as The Office, I'm Alan Patridge, 6 Feet Under
People taking environmentalism too seriously


Good:

Paris Hilton
'Latin' influenced pop music in the early part of this decade
USSR still collapsed, shows few if any signs of reforming

My sides are literally splitting at this slection. you've taken my choices, and reversed them.

 

[Perfection]

I'm that good.

 

[Jazzmail]

It makes alot more sense the other way around atleast.